despite the poor start lakers is giving coach mike brown a vote of confidence and kobe bryant is telling fans to chill out. >>> scottie pippen tells one way that president obama is just like mike. he took to the court with the president's team for his traditional election day basketball day. pippen said no one wanted to hit jordan back in the day and no one wants to hit the president now. as pippen put it, when the president drives on the basket, the lane opens up wide enough for his motorcade to come through. >>> staying chuck strong for chuck pagano while battling leukemia. two dozen players got their head shaved this week in support of their coach. he showed up in the locker room on sunday. surprising coats with a 5-3 record take on jacksonville tonight. that's a quick look at sports for you. >>> the next hour of "cnn newsroom" starts right now. stories we're watching right now in the newsroom, a new wave of misery in the northeast. first super storm sandy delivered hurricane force winds and floods. today it's a nor'easter. making a bad situation even worse. >>> smoking pot used to ge